Paradigm Lost. The Implementation of Basic Education Reforms in Sub-SaharanAfrica

摘要

The study focuses on the contributions of the World Bank and the U.S. Agency forInternational Development (USAID) to the implementation of basic education reform programs in five sub-Saharan African countries. The study has three purposes. The first is to describe the implementation of major basic education reforms in Benin, Ethiopia, Guinea, Malawi, and Uganda. Second, the study presents an analysis of the implementation process in each of these countries according to a common framework, which includes: the technical content of the reform, the actors who implemented it, and the economic, political, and cultural context that influenced the actors. The final purpose is to summarize the patterns and crosscutting themes that emerge from the case studies.